Living Tracker

The Agentic AWS Landscape, Refreshed.

Most consulting firms publish a quarterly PDF of trends. We publish a page that refreshes. AWS ships agentic capability. The landscape changes. Our delivery learns. This page is updated in cycle so executives can read a current view rather than a stale one.

Last refreshed: May 2026 Updated weekly when AWS or our delivery has something new to report

How to Read

The structure.

The tracker has three columns. The first column lists current AWS agentic capability : services, models, frameworks, partner programs : by category. The second column states the capability as AWS describes it. The third column is Mactores' view: what we are seeing in delivery, what we recommend, what we would not commit to yet. The third column is what makes this page worth keeping open.

The Tracker

Current agentic AWS landscape.

Foundation Models on Bedrock

Capability

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

AWS Description

Anthropic's flagship model for complex reasoning, analysis, and long-context tasks

Mactores View

Our default for agentic orchestration. Strong reasoning, reliable tool use. Production-ready.

Capability

Amazon Titan Text

AWS Description

First-party embeddings and text generation optimized for enterprise

Mactores View

Solid for retrieval embeddings. We use Titan for embedding layers in production RAG pipelines.

Capability

Llama 3.1 (405B)

AWS Description

Meta's open-weight model available on Bedrock

Mactores View

Strong alternative when customers want open weights. Heavier inference cost than Claude for comparable quality.

Bedrock Agents

Capability

Bedrock Agents

AWS Description

Managed agent orchestration with action groups and knowledge bases

Mactores View

Good for single-agent patterns. Multi-agent orchestration still requires custom scaffolding in most production scenarios.

Capability

Bedrock Guardrails

AWS Description

Policy enforcement for AI behavior, content filtering, and safety

Mactores View

Essential for regulated industries. We bake guardrails into every HIPAA and FSI deployment.

Capability

Bedrock Knowledge Bases

AWS Description

Managed RAG with automatic chunking, embedding, and retrieval

Mactores View

Fast path to RAG. Production tuning usually requires custom retrieval for precision.

Data & Retrieval

Capability

Amazon OpenSearch (with k-NN)

AWS Description

Hybrid search with vector and keyword capabilities

Mactores View

Our go-to for hybrid retrieval. Vector + BM25 with cross-encoder re-ranking is the production pattern.

Capability

Aurora Serverless v2

AWS Description

Serverless PostgreSQL with pgvector support

Mactores View

Strong for applications needing both relational data and vector search in one store.

Capability

Amazon S3 + Textract

AWS Description

Document storage and extraction pipeline

Mactores View

Standard pattern for document-heavy agentic apps. Textract quality is production-grade for most legal/financial docs.

Orchestration & Compute

Capability

AWS Step Functions

AWS Description

Serverless workflow orchestration with visual debugging

Mactores View

Our default for multi-step agentic workflows. Audit trail by construction.

Capability

Amazon EKS

AWS Description

Managed Kubernetes for containerized workloads

Mactores View

Required for EMR on EKS migrations. Also our pattern for high-throughput inference serving.

Capability

AWS Lambda

AWS Description

Serverless compute for event-driven functions

Mactores View

Glue layer for agentic architectures. Cold start latency matters less than people think for most use cases.

The Agentic AWS Landscape, Refreshed.

The structure.

Current agentic AWS landscape.

Foundation Models on Bedrock

Bedrock Agents

Data & Retrieval

Orchestration & Compute

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